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...definite end to the decline in production and the slow, steady expansion of credit were heartening, but the most impressive business news continued to dwell on the way John Citizen was crowding the counters of the nation's stores. Chain-store sales were running 13% above last year, department store sales in some cities were up as much as 35%. September mail order sales were up 42%. It took no statistical microscope to perceive that the long downward sweep of the business curve had, at last, a little upward hook...
...blacks and whites which quickly swelled to 2.000 visitors per day. He now operates "Kingdoms" in New York, Newark, Baltimore, Washington, Bridgeport. Most of his followers, "of high as well as of low intellectual capacity," believe him to be God or a "resurrected Christ" who has come to dwell on earth. Divine denies that he teaches he is God, but the Newark committee finds that he suffers his flock to "pay him divine honors" in violation of the New Jersey statute. "Father" Divine owns several automobiles and an airplane. In New York alone his "Kingdom" costs $30.000 a year...
...prophet Isaiah in providing a doom for all his enemies, and in peopling a heaven with his chosen. The man of science, and the engineer, and the technician will form a holy trinity to rule this heaven on earth of A.D. 2105, and all will dwell on earth happily forever after...
...Press showed that Father Coughlin had sometimes deposited $20,000 at a time in $1 bills- gifts from radio listeners -and that part of the stock he bought was paid for with money from the account of the radio "League of the Little Flower." The Free Press did not dwell on the fact that Father Coughlin was legally free to manage his radio receipts as he pleased...
...memory of the undergraduate is short, only four years, if one authority be trusted. Yet there are those who dwell among the pansies and periwinkles, who may remember a High Table only a year since. The President was a guest, and his entrance aroused in the dining hall a hush,--no, never a stare . . . in Lowell House. But soon there was amusement, a litter, and as the President came abreast James Russell Lowell's portrait, a hearty, Teutonic, gut-wrenching laugh exploded. The President heard, turned, and pointed calmly toward the door; Phantom stopped, turned, made gravely for the door...